Chintheche
Sign in to saveChintheche is a settlement in the Nkhata Bay District of the Northern Region of Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi, and is approximately south of Nkhata Bay. The town is close to the main road between Nkhata Bay and Nkhotakota.
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- human settlement
- Country
- Malawi
- Located in
- Nkhata Bay District
- Continent
- Africa
- Elevation
- 482
- Time zone
- UTC+02:00
- Shares border with
- Lake Malawi
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Chintheche is a settlement in the Nkhata Bay District of the Northern Region of Malawi. It is on the shore of Lake Malawi, and is approximately south of Nkhata Bay. The town is close to the main road between Nkhata Bay and Nkhotakota.
==History== In the 1970s, the government of Hastings Banda planned to develop Chintheche, with a new harbour and a paper-processing plant. To accommodate the new development, residents of Chintheche were displaced further inland. The scheme would have created employment for thousands of people, but for the most part did not come to fruition; however, the displaced residents were not allowed to return to their lakeshore homes.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Chintheche” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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